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ou want to take this up to levels that humans can't even understand, all you need is a mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a canteen, a thermos flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happe…

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now.

Go. Oh yeah, it was good. It was good.

So you know it's funny. I was in Starbucks the other day and I could swear I got decaf. I know I didn't, you know, because I watched him make it. But I was feeling like, oh, maybe the coffee is wearing off. But it is a thing that at some stores they will give you decaf if they ran out of regular coffee. That's a real thing. I don't think that happened to me, but it's a thing.

Well, scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus, who I call octopi. Now you might know it, but it is appropriate to say both octopi and octopuses. One of those sounds naughtier than the other, so I go with octopi. However, if you found four new species of octopi and you wanted them to form some kind of a political action group, what would they be? Octopi forming a political action group. Octopi Wall Street. That is co

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rrect. Octopi Wall Street. That is their new political action committee. And you think that four octopi is not enough, but let me tell you they got a lot of hands. Yeah, they got a lot of arms. All right, we're done with that. That is all the octopi humor I have. No more. As you know, the sperm count among humans is plunging toward the ground, and by 2040 you can all day and you'll never have a…

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